Siren Blade

Chapter 60 Hunter
When I sprinted towards the hunter, he turned and ran without thinking, even using teleportation.

In the previous battle with the succubus, he also frequently used space transfer.According to my observation, every time he transfers, there is a cooling time of no less than one second.I don't know if it's a side effect of burning lifespan. Originally, he could teleport to a distance of [-] meters with a single space transfer spell, but in this battle, he can only teleport to a distance of [-] meters.

No, perhaps the shortening of the transfer distance has nothing to do with his burning life, but has something to do with the dense fog.

I slowly had the feeling of "hitting the bull's eye".This conjecture should be correct - he can only transfer to the place covered by his awareness with a high probability, and the thick fog hinders the extension of his perception.

His speed was originally far inferior to mine, and his physical strength also declined sharply at this time.Even with the help of space transfer, I can no longer escape my clutches.

I accidentally called my hand a devil's claw... I slandered myself a little bit, then finally caught up with him and beat him hard on the back of the heart with my fist.

I didn't intend to kill him just like that.After that, the succubus probably won't take the initiative to show up in front of me again. If I want to find her again and crack some of her secrets, I have to start with the hunter.Purely from this point of view, maybe I should kill the hunter and search for his spirit fragments.But unlike himself, he was really charmed.I want to try other methods first, and then consider the last resort if it doesn't work.

The hunter was hit by me and flew into a house on the street, and I strode into the room to pursue him.After a few hits, the hunter was knocked out with my fists and kicks.I was still a little worried about whether he was accidentally beaten to death by myself. I didn't do this kind of "keeping alive" very well.

Fortunately he was still breathing.I'm not in a hurry to take care of him here, but I carried him on my shoulders first and left here.Both Joan and the girl were left far away by me, and it was difficult for them to survive alone in the thick fog.If you are unlucky enough to meet a demon, it is a dead end.

After a while, I barely managed to find the route I had come from in the dense fog, and returned to the place where I was attacked earlier.

Joan didn't hide, but walked around like a headless chicken, as if looking for something.It's also a good thing that he didn't encounter a demon attack while walking this way, or maybe he discovered and avoided the danger in advance with his own awareness.I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when I found him.This dense fog probably has the property of causing people to disperse, so I was actually mentally prepared not to find him.

Why did I not be separated from Joan after being separated for so long, but Saber Tooth and the others quickly separated, and it was always difficult to meet other survivors?What is the mechanism behind this phenomenon of dispersal?
While wondering, I also noticed another anomaly.

The girl is gone.

"Where did she go?" I asked.

Joan glanced at the hunter on my shoulder, and said disappointedly: "She ran away..."

"Run? Why?" I asked. "You encountered a demon?"

"No, no." He said sadly, "When you were fighting just now, I led her to find a place to hide, but she struggled suddenly, pushed me down, and then ran away into the depths of the thick fog. I immediately chased after her, but she disappeared in the thick fog in a blink of an eye, just like those who disappeared before. I desperately searched for her, but I couldn't find her..."

No wonder he didn’t hide just now.

"There's nothing you can do if you can't find it. You should give priority to your own safety. It's okay to be a hero, but if you try to kill yourself, the loss outweighs the gain." I sighed secretly as I said.

It seems that girls still have a strong repulsion and fear towards us... or maybe they still have a strong sense of rejection and fear towards men.Even if Joan could talk to her a little bit, she couldn't really feel at ease.I would rather run away alone in the fog than stay with us.

This is simply the worst of bad strategies, and only a mentally disturbed person would do that.But she had already been tortured to the point of insanity by those two men, no wonder she was like this.The problem is that she doesn't have the ability to survive in the dense fog. Even if she is lucky enough to escape from being surrounded by demons, the nightmare will be endlessly prolonged due to the disorder of time perception, or she will be involved in other more absurd things. In weird phenomenon.

Joan looked very dissatisfied with his performance, but there was nothing he could do.This sense of powerlessness may stay with him for a long time.

"I can't even do things like keep an eye on her..." he blamed himself.But for this boy who is only thirteen or fourteen years old, I have no more requirements.It's better to say that he expected too much of himself.

At this time, the hunter let out an unconscious groan, and he woke up.

Immediately, I noticed that he was mobilizing his spirituality in a somewhat familiar way.He wanted to use space transfer to escape—but this attempt was shattered by me decisively.I slammed him to the ground and kicked him hard on the cheek.He was thrown and kicked again, and he was completely messed up, and the spirituality he had managed to mobilize also collapsed.

"I advise you not to struggle, you can't escape from my demon...my palm." I grabbed his collar and lifted it up, and said to him in a threatening tone, "If you don't want to suffer too much, I suggest that you honestly explain the information about the succubus. Why did she release the demon of the mist? How did she suddenly become stronger?"

"I...I won't tell you anything." He said painfully but firmly, "I love her, and I will never betray her..."

"What happened to him?" Joan asked in astonishment.

"He's been brainwashed by the succubus with its charm," I said.

Joan seemed to think of something, "Brainwashed... just like you before?"

"It's not the same." I said, "I'll try to see if I can undo his charm."

After speaking, I crazily beat the hunter's face.

Joan was shocked when he saw it, "Can the charm be broken with fists?"

"Maybe there are warlocks who can remove the charm with their fists, but I can't do it. This is just 'preparation work', I need his consciousness to become as loose as possible first, and then..." At this moment, the hunter has already I beat him beyond recognition, I'm afraid even his parents won't recognize him, I took out the three anti-charm amulets Jade Bird gave me from my pocket, "It's the turn of these things to fight."

I applied the anti-charm amulet to the hunter's bruised and bloodied face like a plaster.

When I did this, I didn't have much in mind.The anti-charm amulet does have the function of resisting charm, but it is mainly used for defense, not for healing those who have already been recruited.Besides, the hunter didn't know how long he had been charmed by the succubus, presumably the power of charm had already been deeply rooted.

Facts have proved that without actually doing some things, it is really impossible to know what the results will be.

When the anti-charm talisman was attached to the third one, I clearly noticed that the status of the hunter had changed significantly.If there was still an abnormal temperament lingering around him before, then at this moment he has finally returned to normal, and the whole person is clear about it.

The anti-charm amulet actually worked?Even though I was the one who decided to try this, I was still taken aback.

The hunter slowly woke up. He looked at the thick fog above him like a fool, and remained silent for a long time.

I routinely asked, "Are you okay?"

"...I..." He said blankly, "What have I done..."

He supported his body and sat up with difficulty, looking around at the thick fog.

After a while, he seemed to finally wake up completely, and he shed tears, and then broke down and cried.

I remembered the information about him that I had read before going to White Day Town.

A long time ago, he was also a law enforcement warlock who worked in the Liucheng Security Bureau. He belonged to the same faction as Lie Que in the organization, and once worked under Lie Que's men.I don't like the political term "faction" very much. I feel that it has polluted my romantic impression of the Security Bureau, and I have never actively learned about the factions in the Security Bureau.But since he works with Lie Que, it means that he must also be an upright person.

In fact, he has also made a lot of contributions with his courage and spells. According to the data, he is a person who is as firm as a rock.But now he was crying like a child.Where there is still a rock, it is clearly tofu.

However, everyone has their weaknesses.Many strong people who seem to be unwavering in all aspects may also be more sensitive and vulnerable than ordinary people in some places.And the reason why some people have never collapsed may be just because they have never encountered something that hit their inner weakness.

I once had a dream of being a hero, and now that dream can no longer be fulfilled, and I'm broken because of it.But from another perspective, it is just a "dream", an imaginary castle that has not been piled up yet.I have never achieved success on that road, let alone losing my fortune at the end of the year.Where am I qualified to criticize hunters like tofu?He was forced to personally destroy the castle he built in the first half of his life.I heard he even got married...

Speaking of which, what about his family?After being controlled by the succubus, did he continue to act in front of his family in order to maintain a normal life on the surface?Or, his family has...

He held his head in agony.

All in all, this is not the place to talk.Joan and I took him to a nearby abandoned clothing store and sat down.Although I am very sympathetic to what happened to him, I still want to ask the succubus for information first.

Fortunately, he hasn't forgotten that he is a law enforcement warlock, or he finally remembered it.He tried his best to clean up his scattered emotions, and told me everything he knew.

I combined his testimony with the intelligence I already had, trying to reason out the ins and outs of the matter.

According to the intermediary, the succubus hates his talent for charm and yearns for pure violence.In the battle with me, her charm continuously failed, which may have strengthened her mind.So after escaping, she finally pursued a higher level of strength.

But as a succubus, it is difficult for her to develop in a violent direction. If she insists on pursuing power, she must change herself from a more essential place.

Just then, she got a choice.

That is to merge with the demon of the mist.

And the person who gave her this choice was the half-blood demon biting the blood.

Sword Tooth said that the wooden box capable of sealing the Demon of Mist was originally kept by the Tianhe City Security Bureau, but it was stolen not long ago.Looking at it now, nine out of ten people who stole the wooden box were biting blood.After getting the wooden box, she tracked down the demon of the mist with a high probability, sealed it, and provided the succubus with the secret method of fusing the demon.

What motivated Bite Blood to go to such lengths to help the succubus is still unknown, and she didn't even ask for anything in return from the succubus this time.

And the succubus did not let go of such a golden opportunity, she immediately set about arranging a ceremony to merge with the fog demon, and successfully obtained enormous power.

Today's succubus is not so much a "succubus" as a new "fog demon".The thick fog that filled Bairi Town was her brand new body.

And this also explained the secret of her immortality—the reason why she was killed by the Siren Blade was okay because I only killed a part of her body.In other words, the succubus I fought with before was not a "clone", but a "tentacles extending from the main body".No matter how powerful the Siren Blade is, it can't kill someone just by cutting off a finger.

This is also where her bottomless physical strength comes from.Although the power density of the Fog Demon is very low, the total amount is ridiculously large.No matter how much she spends, she can't use it up.

In addition, because the current succubus is no longer a "succubus", her charm control over the hunter also has the problem of being weak in succession.The reason why the previous hunters are still in the state of "crazy for love" is only because they have accumulated too many charms in the past, and the tide will not ebb for a while.But that is rootless water after all, even if you do nothing, it will be automatically resolved in the future.That's why the previous me was able to simply remove the hunter's charm state with fists and anti-charm charms.

She actually exchanged such a terrifying power of charm, I really don't know how much she dislikes her identity as a succubus.

"She has a great desire for power, especially violence." The hunter whispered, looking at his hands absently, "For the past two years, she kidnapped innocent people from surrounding towns, used demonic rituals to increase her power, and I became her accomplice..."

No wonder she had that power when she was a succubus.

Although she was not my opponent at all before, she is already considered extremely strong among the succubus.According to the information I have read, the population of succubi, even if they are of mixed blood, rarely see people who specialize in violence.Many succubi may not even be stronger than ordinary people in terms of physical ability, but she used to be able to cooperate with strong folks like the middleman.

"Then, why did you take the initiative to attack me before?" I asked, "Even if she is not afraid of being killed by me, she may still lose your pawn. Anyway, I can't do anything to her, she can let me go." I don't care about it. Or is it just out of personal grievances? Because the middleman...someone she knew was killed by me, so she wants revenge?"

"Because your existence will weaken her power." The hunter replied, "The demons that move in the dense fog are the tentacles of the fog demon, and they are also part of her current body. And the demons killed by you... will not Back into the fog."

(End of this chapter)